Temporary binder.



PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906.

- J. B. BARLOW.

- TEMPORARY BINDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1906.

Witnesses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed July 29, 1905; Serial No. 271,818.

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JOHN B. BARLOW, a citizen of the United States,residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan,have invented new and useful Improvements in Temporary Binders, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to temporary binders adapted to hold and controlrecords, memoranda, or papers that would otherwise be liable toscattering and loss; and its object is to provide such a binder ofespecially convenient and economical form. This obj eat I acoomplish bythe construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1is a perspective view of the binder, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofthe same.

1 is the bottom board of any desired shape and size, but ordinarilyrectangular.

2 represents a metal strip lying under neath the bottom board and intowhich the binding posts 3 3 are inserted to insure greater strength.

4 is intended to represent the body of leaves or papers which are to bebound, and these leaves or papers must before binding be punched in anyusual manner with holes through which the binding-posts 3 3 can pass.

5 is the top cover, and 5 is a binding-strip made of such material,preferably wood, as to be comparatively firm and rigid, and punched withholes registering with the binding-posts, whereby it is permitted torest upon and bind down the front edge of the cover 5. This cover 5 ispreferably made hinged or flexible at or near the point where it passesunder the binding-strip 5.

6 6 7 are slots sawed or out vertically into the ends of thebinding-stri There may be one or two in each or in eit er end, or one ormore of them may be provided at its inner end with a hole piercing thebinding-strip and of larger diameter than the slot and having acountersunk depression upon the upper edge of the binding-strip, asindicated by 8.

9 is the binding-cord, and 10 indicates a portion of the bottom boardrabbeted or out out in any suitable manner. The rabbet 10 should be of adepth as great as the diameter of the binding-cord, while the slots 6 67, or at least one of them, should be of a width slightly less than suchdiameter. If these slots are cut in a wooden strip, the sides thereofwill have a slight spring binding ac tion upon the cord, or if metal isused this binding action can be provided in any other suitable manner.

To make use of my device, I remove the binding-cord, binding-strip, andcover. I then insert upon the binding-posts the leaves or papers to bebound and replace the cover and the binding strip. I then take thebinding-cord and as one convenient means of making it fast at one end ofthe binding strip I tie a knot in the end of the cord and pass v thecordfrom above through the slot 7 into hole 8. The knot will prevent thecord from passing down through and the countersunk depression willreceive the knot, leaving a smooth surface. The spring action of theslot 7 permits the easy insertion of the cord through the slot, butprevents its accidental withdrawal or displacement. I then carry thecord down under the bottom board, pass ing the same between the metalstrip 2 and the edge of the rabbet or groove 10 and bringing the cord upon the other side of the binder and pass it through the rear slot 6,around the binding-post, down through the forward slot 6, under thebottomboard on the other side of the metal strip, and up to the otherside of the binder, catching the free end in the spring-slot 7. Thebinding-strip and the cover are thereby held firmly in pos1- tion andyet are very easily removed, if desired.

Evidently one binding-slot would be sufficient to make the deviceoperative, though I find it more convenient and efficient to provide atleast one slot on each end of the binding-strip, and usually to providetwo slots upon one. end. The binding-post upon the end where the cord isto be returned forms a as preferred. If made integrally, some time willbe saved in the operation of placing and replacing.

I have shown binding-posts and a bindingstrip provided with holesthrough which the posts may pass, thus permitting a sliding engagementbetween the binding-strip and the posts. Obviously this slidingengagement could be accomplished in other ways, the important pointbeing that the binding-strip should be adjustable to and from the bottomand should be held against lateral motion in any direction.

I have shown the hole and countersunk depression 8 in the upper surfaceof the binding-strip and the binding-cord passing down therethrough. Ifit should be desired to conceal the knot entirely from view, the bindingstrip could be reversed, so that the upper surface, as shown, wouldbecome the under surface.

It is apparent that the office of the binding-cord is to unite thebottom and the binding-strip but by detachable connection and with anyconstruction which permitted the binding-cord to be attached to one ofthese members and to be detachably connected by a slot to the othermember the same result would be accomplished.

I have spoken of the sides of the slot as having a spring bindingaction. .There is, however, a certain elasticity or adaptability in suchcord as would be used for bindingcord, and the yielding when the cordwas inserted in the slot would be partly in the cord and partly in theslot or wholly in either, as the case might be. I have spoken of thefront and rear of thedevice as the same appears in Fig. 1, in which thebinding edge is nearer to the observer, and I have therefore spoken ofthis edge as the front of the binder, although it might be more accurateto speak of the free edge as the front and the binding edge as the rear.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, anddesire to secure I by Letters Patent, is

1. In a temporary binder a bottom member, a binding-strip memberadjustable to and from the bottom, means for sliding enengagementbetween said two members permitting such adjustability, a binding-cordpassing below said bottom member, and said binding-strip member providedwith means for attaching one end of said binding-cord and for clampingthe free end of said bindingcord thereto.

2. In a temporary binder, a bottom member, a binding-post risingtherefrom, a binding-strip member provided with means for obtaining asliding engagement between it and said binding-post, a binding-cordextending beneath said bottom member, and said binding-strip memberprovided with means at one end for attaching one end of the binding-cordthereto and provided at its other end with a binding-slot for clampingthe free end of said cord thereto.

3. In a temporary binder a bottom, a binding-post rising therefrom, abinding-strip, means for sliding engagement between the binding-post andthe binding-strip, a slot in one end of said binding-strip, throughwhich slot one end of the binding-cord may be inserted, a binding-cord,and a slot in the other end of said binding-strip through which thebinding-cord may pass.

4. In a temporary binder a bottom, a binding-post rising therefrom, abinding-strip, means for sliding engagement between the binding-post andthe binding-strip, a' bindingcord, means for attaching one end of thecord to the binding-strip near one end of the strip, and two slots inthe binding-strip at the other end thereof through which the bindingcordmay pass and repass, said slots being of a width less than the diameterof the cord.

5. In a temporary binder a bottom, a binding-post rising therefrom, abinding-strip, means for sliding engagement between the binding-stripand the binding-post, a binding-cord, means for attaching one end of thebinding-cord to the binding-strip, means for detachably fastening thebinding-cord to the binding-strip near one end thereof, and a rabbetfrom the under surface of the bottom board whereby the binding-cord canbe passed beneath the bottom board without lifting the same from thetable.

6. A temporary binder comprising a base, a binding-strip membervertically adjustable thereon, and a binding-cord attached at one end tosaid member and having its other end clamped to saidmember, said cordpassing below said base.

7. In a temporary binder, a bottom mem ber, a binding-strip memberadjustable to and from said bottom member, means car ried by one of saidmembers and extending through the other of said members for forming thesliding engagement between the two members, and a binding-cord attachedto one side of one of said members and having the other end thereofdetachably clamped to the other side of said member.

8. In a temporary binder, a bottom member, a binding-strip memberadjustable to and from said bottom member, means for sliding engagementbetween said two members permitting of the adjustability of saidbinding-strip member, and a binding-cord for a portion of its lengthextending parallel with one of said members and having one end attachedand its free end clamped to the other of said members.

9. In a temporary binder, a bottom member, a binding-post risingtherefrom, a binding-strip member, means for sliding engagement betweenthe binding-post and the binding-strip, a binding-cord, means forattaching one end of the binding-cord to one of said my hand in presenceof two subscribing 'Wi vmembersd,l and one of said mem$e1is hiving a];nesses. o en-en ed bindin -s 0t sai s 0t ein 0 le s Width than thediameter of the binding- JOHN BARLOW 5 cord, whereby said slot will bindand grip the Witnesses: free end of said cord. A. C. DENISON,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set CLARA G. HAMILTON.

